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KARACHI: Inter board increases fees by 25 per cent
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, has increased the HSC examination, enrolment and registration fees for regular and external candidates by 25 per cent, which would be applicable in the case of HSC supplementary examinations’ candidates as well.... candidates as well.... 
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KARACHI: Ibad warns contractors, utilities: Delay on Tameer-i-Karachi
KARACHI, Nov 10: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan ordered on Thursday that contractors delaying the Tameer-i-Karachi Programme be blacklisted for future works, and reluctance on part of utilities such as...
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KARACHI: Foggy weather delays 38 flights
KARACHI, Nov 10: Over 38 incoming and outgoing flights, including 18 international ones, were delayed as a thick blanket of fog on Thursday morning covered the city and reduced the visibility to about 50 meters....
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KARACHI: Survey of buildings ordered
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Sindh government has decided to have a survey of all its building in Karachi, including the Sindh Secretariat. The Civil Defence Department has been given the task...
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KARACHI: Kidnapper awarded life term
KARACHI, Nov 10: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Thursday an accused to life in jail for kidnapping a man for ransom. Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 also ordered confiscation of Zahid Sagheer’s property worth Rs100,000....
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KARACHI: Lawyers threaten to sue SBP over credit card bar
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Supreme Court Bar Association will sue the State Bank and commercial banks for credit card bar on lawyers. Talking to Dawn on Thursday, newly-elected SCBA President Malik...
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KARACHI: Identification of survivors for relief urged
KARACHI, Nov 10: People in Mansehar have urged volunteers of certain organizations working in various relief camps to hand out relief goods only after properly identifying the seekers as survivors....
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KARACHI: 6-inch-dia pipeline in Landhi Town laid
KARACHI, Nov 10: The adviser to Sindh chief minister on local government, Wasim Akhtar, on Thursday exhorted the nazims of the city, towns and union councils to undertake development projects with...
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KARACHI: PMA to serve quake victims for another six months
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Pakistan Medical Association, Karachi chapter, has decided to continue its voluntary service to quake victims for a further six-month period. PMA General Secretary Dr Qaiser Sajjad said...
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KARACHI: Separate deptt to deal with calamities stressed
KARACHI, Nov 10: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information Technology Mohammad Noman Saigal has stressed the need for a separate provincial department for dealing with any natural calamity....
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KARACHI: MBBS suppl exam results
KARACHI, Nov 10: The University of Karachi on Thursday announced the results of the second professional MBBS supplementary exams 2005. According to statistics, 176 candidates appeared in the exams and of...
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KARACHI: Appeal for blood
KARACHI, Nov 10: A child victim of earthquake presently under treatment at the Oncology Unit of the National Institute of Child Health, Karachi, urgently needs blood of ‘O positive’ group....
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KARACHI: Rs1bn special programme for Korangi announced: Industrial area uplift
KARACHI, Nov 10: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has announced Rs1 billion special development programme for improvement of water and sewerage system in the Korangi Industrial area, and said that its implementation will start in a week....
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KARACHI: Officials told to discourage favouritism
KARACHI, Nov 10: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Thursday asked the officials to discourage favouritism and unjust acts, and said they should utilise their capabilities for the welfare of people....
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KARACHI: Imtiaz allowed protective bail in new case
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Sindh High Court allowed interim protective bail to former revenue minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh in a sixth case on Thursday afternoon....
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KARACHI: People urged to take part in campaign: ‘Sponsor a family’
KARACHI, Nov 10: The federal government has assigned the ministries of women development, special education and health to evolve an action plan for the rehabilitation of women and children affected by the earthquake....
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KARACHI: PPP slams govt for poor relief work
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Sindh council of the Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday slammed the government’s alleged inefficiency in mounting relief operation for the earthquake victims and questioned transparency in the whole process....
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KARACHI: More MQM volunteers leave for Islamabad
KARACHI, Nov 10: As many as 110 volunteers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement left for Islamabad on Thursday to take part in the relief work at the 20 camps and field hospitals set up by the party....
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KARACHI: Order on Benazir’s application reserved
KARACHI, Nov 10: An accountability court in Karachi on Thursday reserved order on an application for exemption of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s personal appearance before court at the time of...
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KARACHI: Taxi driver shot dead
KARACHI, Nov. 10: A taxi driver was shot dead by unknown persons in Saudabad on Thursday morning. Police said Saeedullah, 35, was standing near his cab near Liaquat Market where two...
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KARACHI: Ex-KBCA chief shown absconder
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) submitted final charge-sheet against an officer of the Karachi Building Control Authority and his personal assistant in the provincial anti-corruption court, headed by Judge Arjun Ram Talreeja....
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HYDERABAD: Self-sufficiency in food main goal: Bosan
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Fede-ral Food and Agriculture Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Bosan has said the main objective of the government’s agriculture policy are to achieve selfsufficiency by increasing per acre yield and strive for export of agricultural commodities....
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HYDERABAD: New districts facing fund shortage
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Distr-icts carved out of Hyderabad are facing a host of difficulties because the Sindh government has not revalidated lapsed funds of Rs150 million as promised, set up district governments’ group of offices and posted required staff there....
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HYDERABAD: Demand to withdraw cases against ST activists HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan MPA Abdul Rehman Rajput has accused an ethnic organization, which is also a coalition partner in federal and provincial governments, of unleashing inhuman atrocities against activists of the Sunni Tehrik....
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HYDERABAD: Sindh varsity convocation on Dec 12
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The convocation of the University of Sindh will be held on Dec 12 at the Allama I. I. Kazi campus in Jamshoro. The governor, who is the chancellor of universities of Sindh, will preside over the convocation....
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HYDERABAD: Farmers to get seed processing facility
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: A spokesman for the directorate of agriculture information, agriculture extension, Sindh, has said two more mobile wheat seed processing and grading floats will provide service to farmers in upper Sindh....
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HYDERABAD: Ban on use of polythene bags
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Distr-ict Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has banned trading and use of polyethylene bags from January 1, 2006 in the district and asked traders and consumers to arrange alternative source within two months....
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HYDERABAD: Power supply erratic in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Comp-laints of erratic power supply have increased over the last couple of days in different sub-divisions of Hesco. Hesco has so far cited no reason for power failures, causing numerous problems in homes, offices and business centres.......
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